Ah, the classics. Black and white movies. Chanel No. 5. A Birkin bag. The perfect pair of pearl earrings.
Some things will simply never fall out of style. In fact, as the world continues to quicken its pace, and trends are over almost before they go viral, the classics are holding firmer than ever.
By the turn of the 20th century, Japanese visionary Kokichi Mikimoto had invented a method for producing cultured pearls, which finally brought this rarefied gem to the masses.
It was not long afterwards that Coco Chanel made wearing oversized piles of faux pearls de rigueur. Her revolutionary influence made costume jewellery acceptable for women of all classes in the 1920s.
By the 1960s, Audrey Hepburn had immortalised the pearl necklace in her iconic opening scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
